Director of Global Trade Compliance

Martinrea International Inc. is a diversified and global automotive supplier,a diversified and global automotive supplier engaged in developing and manufacturing highly engineered, value-added Lightweight Structures and Propulsion Systems. We employ approximately 16,000 skilled and currently operate in 57 locations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Slovakia, Spain, China, South Africa, and Japan. Martinrea's vision is making lives better by being the best supplier we can be in the products we make and the services we provide.

Our Mission is to make people's lives better by:

• Delivering outstanding quality products and services to our customers.
• Providing meaningful opportunity, job satisfaction, and job security for our people.
• Providing superior long-term investment returns to our stakeholders.
• Being positive contributors to our communities.

Martinrea's success is globally shown through its core sustainable culture. Focused on entrepreneurship, lean manufacturing principles, and the Golden Rule philosophy, Martinrea believes in dignity and respect for its people, communities, customers, and investors. Our strength is in our people, embracing a diverse culture, giving employees opportunities to help grow our footprint and expand product offerings and areas of expertise with discipline, dedication and determination

We invite you to follow your dreams and explore a challenging and rewarding career at Martinrea.

The Director of Global Trade Compliance serves as the company’s most senior authority on global trade compliance, with full enterprise accountability for compliance with customs, export controls, economic sanctions, and related trade regulations worldwide. This role sets the global vision, governance model, and risk posture for trade compliance and directly advises executive leadership on trade-related risk, cost, and strategic implications.

The Director leads the global trade compliance organization, establishes enterprise-wide standards and controls, and partners with Legal, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, IT, Product Development, and executive leadership to enable compliant growth, protect the company’s license to operate, and optimize total landed cost across the global supply chain.

• Own and set the company’s global trade compliance vision, strategy, and governance framework across all regions, business units, and legal entities.
• Serve as the executive sponsor for the global trade compliance program, ensuring scalability, consistency, and alignment with corporate strategy and risk tolerance.
• Advise executive leadership on trade policy, geopolitical developments, supply chain disruption risks, and the business impact of regulatory change.
• Establish and measure enterprise trade compliance KPIs, reporting regularly to senior leadership on compliance posture, risks, trends, and remediation progress.

• Ensure company-wide compliance with all applicable U.S., Canada and international customs and trade laws, regulations and multilateral agreements/regimes.
• Provide final authority on commodity classification, jurisdiction and licensing determinations, country-of-origin, valuation methodologies, PGA requirements, and sanctions screening practices.
• Establish and maintain a global trade compliance governance structure, including policies, procedures, internal controls, escalation protocols, and recordkeeping standards.

• Lead enterprise trade compliance risk assessments, internal audits, and investigations; oversee corrective action plans and systemic control improvements.
• Act as the senior executive accountable for government inquiries, enforcement…